A holiday week like the one we just had, which is the week that this covers, makes for an interesting time but one that doesn’t allow for as much TV time as I’d like. It was also filled up with a big binge session with my daughter as we took in Evangelion for her first time seeing it. This week was working through the back half of the series and then going into the End of Evangelion movie where once again the Komm, Susser Tod song nearly puts me to tears with how it works.
I’m still finding myself in a position where I just don’t feel the need to say much about this series because I’m all talked-out about it. Enough so that even catching a glimpse of the next Rebuild film has me rolling my eyes in disinterest for various reasons. But I will say that I thoroughly enjoyed revisiting the show and being able to see it through the eyes of someone who is seeing it for the first time and was better educated than I was when I first saw it, having a lot of interests that define this work.
Where I did dig into some material for myself with a few late-night viewing sessions was the back half of the second season of Black Spot. I don’t think this season held up as strongly as the first – and a three-year gap between seasons in France certainly did not help with production – but there’s a lot to like in seeing a well-crafted and moody mystery series. It’s the kind of project where if there’s more, well, I’m on board, but I’ll also be fine if this is the last there is of it. It scratched an itch just right.
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While doing a lot of writing this week for the site and needing something in the background that will tick off the passage of time for me so I’d remember to do certain things, I put on the second season of Riverdale. This is when things started going off the rails with it, which is good and bad. I think the first season is near perfect trash with incredible style and fun but the second season leaned into the strange and just went all out so fast that it left me spinning. Then the third season said hold my beer. That said, I do enjoy this season as it sets a lot of things in motion and begins to build to events that make up the third season.
There are shows I keep looking for on places like iTunes that I’d like to revisit on the cheap just to see how well they hold up or just to have something that’s a bit more “innocent” in a way, hence rewatching stuff like Friends or Seinfeld. The Drew Carey Show was a silly bit of stuff when it aired for its nine seasons, the middle seasons being where it was golden. I found an off-brand digital network playing it on cable so I’ve been recording random episodes. I’d forgotten just how weird it was, especially with the characters like what Ryan Stiles plays. But that’s also why I’m rewatching because his goofy expressions can definitely make me laugh and it’s a good kind of late-night bit to take in before hitting the sheets.
